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| Part four: McDermotts Live Again... * To order your copy of the new live album " Live At Ferneham Hall" [£10.50 inc p&p] please use our contact form... It was inevitable that McDermott’s Two Hours should reform as a gigging band. The sell-out success of the Disorder launch and a series of festival dates in 2004 reaffirmed them as a major presence on the British folk/rock/punk scene. Due to the overwhelming response of fans after the second Beautiful Days festival, the current line-up (Nick Burbridge – guitar and vocals, Ben Paley - fiddle, Matt Goorney - bass, banjo, harmonica, vocals, and Dil Davies – percussion) were invited to join old friends The Levellers on their national tour, Spring, 2005.
"as much a sampler for the consistency and strength
of Nick's writing as anything else...for the McDermotts novice who might've
wondered why critics have been raving about them, but also a memento
for the cognoscenti. It's the sheer energy and drive - if all folk-rock
were like this, then the beast wouldn't be lumbering along half-dead
in cosy parentheses on the Mike Harding programme would it? - the unbridled
atmosphere of the McDermotts gig...this record's a stonker"
In another welcome development, a McDermott’s Two Hours section has been added to the Alternative Levellers Message Board - all messages there are read by the band.
Other gigs include the inaugural Beautiful
Days and Lewes Folk Rock Festival - Gosport
and Fareham Folk festival, Burford Levellers Day, and Morecambe Wasted
Festival. He has also been asked to play some Italian gigs
with folk-rock band Ned Ludd. Watch a video of Nick performing his song Refugees [hosted at Folking.com] at the 2004 Gosport And Fareham Folk Festival. |
A
new live album has now been released: McDermott's Two
Hours - Live At Ferneham Hall, which, once again, the critics
have taken to their hearts:
Listen
to an 
Nick
Burbridge also works solo. He appeared with the Levellers when they
headlined Cambridge Festival, and supported them at a number of gigs
during their 2004 acoustic tour. He will feature alongside Maddy
Prior, Nick Harper and Rev Hammer on a DVD of their sell-out
concert at Buxton Opera House, while his song Prisoner
is one of the B sides on the Levellers' single
Make U Happy.
He writes regularly nowadays for magazines like Song Book.
A typical article, Caretakers, on the issue of authenticity in folk
music and a